I concur! Although I believe that for Rand Paul to be a candidate for President in 2016 he will most likely have to go the independent route. Unlike the Dem's, who have a penchant for thrusting virtual unknowns into the Presidential limelight, the Republicans are entrenched deeply with the idea that many years of dues paying are required before they will permit you to be their candidate of choice.

I concur! Although I believe that for Rand Paul to be a candidate for President in 2016 he will most likely have to go the independent route. Unlike the Dem's, who have a penchant for thrusting virtual unknowns into the Presidential limelight, the Republicans are entrenched deeply with the idea that many years of dues paying are required before they will permit you to be their candidate of choice.

I think after four more years of Obama, they'll be willing to take a chance.

My main concern is not the presidency - it's both Houses (especially the Senate). We desperately need PRINCIPLED occupants there, along with the House. Progressives in BOTH parties need to go, NOW.

This needs to start at home ... on your street ... in your town. It needs to start at the bottom and work it's way up. Then, and only then, God willing, we will have FULLY taken our country back. The movement has already started. People are finally waking up. I have hope again.

SMITTY wrote:My main concern is not the presidency - it's both Houses (especially the Senate). We desperately need PRINCIPLED occupants there, along with the House. Progressives in BOTH parties need to go, NOW.

This needs to start at home ... on your street ... in your town. It needs to start at the bottom and work it's way up. Then, and only then, God willing, we will have FULLY taken our country back. The movement has already started. People are finally waking up. I have hope again.

I'm not quite so optimistic, but I fully concur with this well stated and accurate assessment of the degree of change required, and how it must come about!

SMITTY wrote:My main concern is not the presidency - it's both Houses (especially the Senate). We desperately need PRINCIPLED occupants there, along with the House. Progressives in BOTH parties need to go, NOW.

This needs to start at home ... on your street ... in your town. It needs to start at the bottom and work it's way up. Then, and only then, God willing, we will have FULLY taken our country back. The movement has already started. People are finally waking up. I have hope again.

Tried that. I got "Ron Pauled" before Ron Paul!

The local republican party doesn't want me and everyone else calls me a kook!

People that become legends in thier own minds tend not to last all that long out here, they tend to regress back to the cities with the other great thinkers & actually think they are accomplishing something.

From what I have been reading most of you should consider yourselves kooks, think about it these guys are great because they are great at reading a teleprompter & saying what a prepared speech said & because it's what you want to hear they are great Patriots even if it's not within their power if they do get elected. Heck some built themselves, some say the Supreme Court doesn't have to be listened to. what have any said that really outlines what is good for the country (not themselves) how they will do it (not first thing I will do) & the real tough one is where all the money will come from. A great American Patriot who hides his money in foreign lands to avoid supporting his country (think about that). If elected I promise to give each & every tax payer a tax cut & the ability to put their savings in an off shore sheltered account while going to wars & spending like a drunken fool. (should work it has before).

Says Thomas Jefferson, among other distinguished Americans. His draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 first introduced the word “nullification” into American political life, and follow-up resolutions in 1799 employed Jefferson’s formulation that “nullification…is the rightful remedy” when the federal government reaches beyond its constitutional powers. In the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, James Madison said the states were “duty bound to resist” when the federal government violated the Constitution.